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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When we were skiing at Deer Valley we saw a lot of people who hire a private ski instructor full time for their entire trip. This is about $1000/day (including tip). I talked to an instructor who works for the same family each year for their entire ten day trip. Their kids are old and know how to ski well, they just like to use the instructor to skip the lines and get some tips and a guide for the mountain. When I heard that I thought "so that is how the 1% of the 1% live).[/quote]

Of all the ideas on this thread, this one makes a ton of sense to me.  Not just for skiing, but for everything.  If I'm ever in that income/wealth bracket, I'd do everything possible to avoid waiting in line.  For anything.  That is money well spent.  [/quote]

It makes sense.  For us, even with a HHI in the lower six figures, we generally fly on vacations rather than drive, because it costs less than the additional vacation time to drive would be.  Wasted time costs money.[/quote]

Well it depends. Anything within a 8-10 hour drive we find to be better done as a road trip. The reason I say this is because even a 1-hour flight will turn into a 4 hour total trip: driving to the airport, security, waiting at the gate, the flight itself, exiting the airport, getting your rental car. If you have checked luggage, add another 30-60 minutes. The flight also pretty much locks you down on the day of the flight, you can't schedule to do anything on that day in fear of schedule conflicts. I used to try and arrange short business flights in the afternoon so that I have the morning to get things done. It's always ends up making the day very stressful. So these days I fly out in the morning and if by the time I sit down in my hotel room I still have time to do something, I'll do it then. [/quote]

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